Much of the research I've done on the Tacoma Narrows bridge disaster of 1940 attribute the collapse of the bridge due to aeroelastic flutter - not strucural resonance.
But isn't aeroelastic flutter ...

I am writing up a report on Orifice jet flow experiment in which I am required to find coefficient of flow velocity, $C_v$, and the Coefficient of discharge, $C_d$.
There are couple of things that I ...

So I was doing a bit of reading.
Apparently the the obstacle to generating energy from the forces driving capillary action is breaking the surface tension at the top of a capillary tube. It is just ...

Wikipedia states that mass flow rate is a scalar quantity, however
Mass Flow Rate= Density x Cross Sectional Area x Velocity
and velocity is a vector quantity, so this would imply Mass Flow Rate is ...

I'm trying to bolster my understanding of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, and I've gotten stuck on the point of which fluid (more or less dense) is being accelerated into the other. Cases of uniform ...

I have 2 cylinders made from different polymers. Both cylinders are made to 'accept' the same volume of water. When I fill cylinder 1 it is subjectively stiff while cylinder 2 is subjectively floppy. ...

The Wikipedia article Standard conditions for temperature and pressure notes that IUPAC and NIST are two of the most common standards for temperature and pressure in use.
Even if I could have gotten ...

As a boy I noticed that the waves from the wake of my model boat would fan out. If I looked at the end furthest from the boat the front had turned so that it was almost running in the same direction ...

I was wondering about walking on water. I wonder if we can use surface tension to do this.
Lets say I make a pair of shoes in shape which has infinite perimeter (e.g a koch snowflake) with glass.
Now ...

Magnus effect is commonly explained using Bernoulli principle. However, taking the lift on a rotating cylinder as an example, the velocity difference is caused by the extra work done by the rotating ...

I want to know how the top and bottom boundary layer interact at the trailing edge of an aerofoil (zero angle of attack) and what happens to the boundary layer after a small distance from the trailing ...

Consider a cylinder filled partially with a liquid (e.g. water). The cylinder is sealed, and is at held at room temperature (e.g 298K). At equilibrium (or when no external disturbance is imparted to ...

You observe water at rest behind an irrigation dam. The water is 1.5m above the bottom of a gate that, when lifted, allows water to flow under the gate.
Determine the height h from the bottom of the ...

I am curious as to what a superfluid is? I have seen videos that say that they have zero viscosity, and I know that it means that there is no friction between the layers of the fluid. But what is its ...

A rotating but fixed propeller sucks in air from the front. What is the cause for this acceleration of air particles? Since propeller blades act like rotating wings, my best guess is that the blades ...

So we have a moving fluid and we know from Bernouli's equation that there is a term called dynamic pressure(not to be confused with the hydrostatic pressure of the fluid).
So,what exactly is it and ...

Sea surface nuclear explosion arouses a tidal wave of water.
How does this kind of wave compare to naturally occurring tsunamis? E.g. what would be the potential of a 100KT bomb 100km away the from ...

What is the shape of fluid(say water) on exiting a pipe due to boundary layer formation?Since the velocity decreases as we move from centerline of pipe to boundary along the radius(say fully developed ...

I have been given a energy head (pressure) in meters for a given tsunami on land.
If the tsunami hits a wall 1 meter by 1 meter, is it possible to calculate the height it will reach.
I am thinking it ...